Apple’s teensy Recession Shuffle
p2pnet news view Products | Music:- At the beginning of the worst economic recession the world has ever seen, Apple has decided to re-launch its shuffle music player.
For $80.
Its excuse? This version is smaller.
Does the company figure Macolytes are dumber (sorry, wealthier) than other people?
In the intro to its puff piece, the re-shuffled shuffle “holds 1,000 songs,” says Apple, further down stating:
“Song capacity is based on four minutes per song and 128-Kbps AAC encoding; in 256-Kbps AAC format, song capacity is up to 500 songs; actual capacity varies by encoding method and bit rate.”
Not only but also, “Its revolutionary new VoiceOver feature enables iPod shuffle to speak your song titles, artists and playlist names,” says the company.
But, no choice. There’s no room for a display. And good luck finding it again if you drop it in a grassy area, say.
It also has a “gorgeous new aluminum design with a built-in stainless steel clip that makes it ultra-wearable,” Apple gushes.
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The ’speak’ utility handles English, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish, and battery life is 10 hours, promises Apple.
puff piece – Apple Announces Incredible New iPod Shuffle, March 11, 2009
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March 11th, 2009 at 11:31 am
My Apple Shuffle recently died by drowning in te washing machine, it was my wifes fault really
, but i am more tempted to buy a knock off huffle at the discount warehouse store for $15 than pay $80 for a redesigned Shuffle.
March 11th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
Actually on second thought they have a very compellling advert of the new shuffle on apple.ca that just may change my mind! maybe I will let my wife buy me a NEW shuffle!! We ALL need stimulate the economy
March 11th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
@ David:
That might stimulate Apple’s economy, but it wouldn’t do much anywhere else.
Cheers!
March 11th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
As someone who hates all things apple, the 2nd gen shuffle was pretty cool. But holy crap they are expensive! I bought my creative Zen Stone for 30 bucks. Its 2 GB, has a display and no iTunes (or any software managment) thankfully! Its only slightly bigger than the 2nd gen shuffle, just without the clip.
March 11th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
^^ My daughter has a Zen too. She loves it. : )
Cheers!
March 11th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
Who ever buys one of these I hope they like those crappy ear buds because if you use any other headphones you loose the controls
March 11th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Apple will sell a wire-only with the control so you can use whatever headphones you like.
And Apple’s target consumer are not the visitors of p2pnet. You may dislike Apples products and pricing, but you can’t ignore the fact that they sell a very popular product that targets “normal” consumers. By normal I mean regular people that are not into tech and gadgets like most of the people reading this page. “Normal” consumers want a good experience, and that is what Apple is selling. A easy concept that even non-tech people gets.
March 11th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
” And Apple’s target consumer are not the visitors of p2pnet. You may dislike Apples products and pricing, but you can’t ignore the fact that they sell a very popular product that targets “normal” consumers. ”
Huh ??
IMO, Apple target people like the guy in the Sony parody video featured here ..
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18588
‘Normal’ people who are more concerned with quality product AND better pricing usuall go with something
else ( All four of us in my family have Creative players ). We’re pretty normal.
March 11th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Just a side note …
If we bought Apple players all 4 of us wouldn’t be ABLE to have our
own.
One daughter bought a Creative Zen Vision M 30gb 3 years ago, and never had
a single problem with it .. ever. Whe was able to figure out how to use it without
my help. Likewise the Zen V 2gb players the rest of us have. NEVER a problem
and so easy the wife can use it.
March 11th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
An MP3 player is an MP3 player, no matter who makes it.
The biggest problem is trying to get your wife to understand, that most of the new players don’t use batteries, so she needs to recharge it every so often.
Even my 11 year old daughter remembers to recharge her player.
And don’t even get me started on the recharging of cell phones…
Just my two cents